“he wanted so much, but asked for nothing. Just pretended he was respectable. Pretended as if he was never gripped by animalistic savagery”
― The Cat and The City
― The Cat and The City
“then the train company will charge the family of the deceased. It’s supposed to stop the jumpers from disrupting the trains - Tokyo doesn’t appreciate being put behind schedule”
― The Cat and The City
― The Cat and The City
“the buildings of the city blossoming and withering like flowers from the swamps of Edo”
― The Cat and The City
― The Cat and The City
“I am at war - at war with the ants”
― The Cat and The City
― The Cat and The City
“he never felt that way about Japanese - even though he didn’t understand it. The fluid monotonic sound of it alone made it a far more beautiful and spiritual language. English, with its heavy stresses and wobbly intonation, was dirty and repugnant to his ears”
― The Cat and The City
― The Cat and The City
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